Arewa Youths for Peace and
Security has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that former Vice President
,Atiku Abubakar is a “political prostitute” for his defections between the two
major political parties in the country, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the
All Progressives Congress, APC.
The youths said the former Vice
President was only exercisinghis fundamental human right as a Nigerian by
moving between both parties.
Director for Publicity of the
body, Salihu Dantata Mahmoud said that Abubakar felt he could
achieve his political ambition in the PDP, the reason for his decision to dump
the ruling party for his former party.
Mahmoud said the Waziri of
Adamawa reserves the right to do “whatever possible, provided it’s not
criminal” to attain his political ambition.
He said, “Everybody cannot be an
Abraham Lincoln that would achieve both failure and success by becoming the
president of the United States in one party.
“Mind you, this is Nigeria and
Atiku is a Nigerian with blood running in his body. See people calling him
political prostitute but I hold him in high esteem not because he was a former
Vice President but because he is an elder statesman of reputation.
“The fact remains that the
success of this present administration can be attributed partly to the
contribution of Atiku from when they lost primaries in Lagos and all came
together to ensure that that APC became victorious at the 2015 elections.
“Whatever opinion anybody has
against Atiku is the person just expressing their fundamental human right as
Nigerian, it’s allowed.
“As a politician, you can decide
that you want to belong to Wa party today or Zo party tomorrow provided it
would serve your interest. Atiku wants to be president and he has seen that by
the present arrangement in the APC, if he remains there, he would be
suppressed.
“Look at the APC setup, there are
problems everywhere from local to National and is no long comfortable and that
is why he chose to defect. Forget about his past antecedents, it is allowed,
especially in the polity of Nigeria, I think he has seen what he wants in PDP
that is why he decamped.
“By my experience in politics, it
is allowed that if your interest is not protected in the party you are today,
you can decamp but what critics also need to know is that there is no straight
forward language in politics. Integrity they talk about only works when you win
election but during the process that make you clinch and win election, you do
whatever possible, provided it’s not criminal.
“I think Atiku is entitled to his
fundamental human right as a Nigerian to decamp to any party any day and time,
he has observed succor in PDP and that is why he rejoined. For me as a Nigerian
youth, I have a lot of respect for him and would never call him a political
prostitute, sometime it’s allowed in the polity.”
On the chances of the former Vice
President emerging as PDP flag bearer in 2019, Mahmoud said, “When Buhari
emerged, it was not written in the books, you cannot compare Atiku to the likes
of Fayose.
“Both Makarfi and Fayose cannot
withstand the force of Atiku, he was the former Vice President of Nigeria, he
became a governor-elect in 1999 before he was picked as Vice President and he spent
eight years in that position, people like Makarfi and Fayose were governors
under him, you can’t compare them.
“Makarfi and Fayose are only
popular and have the majority in their states, as for Atiku he is a national
figure. Nigerian electorates follow candidates and not party, in 2019, we can
unveil another black horse like we did with Buhari, nobody knew he was going to
make it.”
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